Hello everybody,
I'm really new here, that's my first post on this forum. Thanks to all the contributors of this topic about the DR-680 I've already learnt a lot of useful things.
I just bought this recorder a few days ago. I was thinking about using a JoeMeek TwinQ with it connected to the digital input, as the TwinQ's got an SPDIF output ... but unfortunately I can't get the two them to work together and I end up with the "DIN unlock" message with every attempts I made.
I tried every frequencies available in 44,1, 48 and 96 Khz (set accordingly and manualy on both the TWINQ and the DR-680), with two different configurations of the DR-680 preferences for each frequency.
One with I/O>INPUT set to "analog", the other set to "Din". In the "REC" sub menu, the "ST REC" inputs were always set to "DIN".
I repeated the same tests, turning on and off the DR-680 in between every attempts (It may sound rather esoteric but I was following some suggestions found on gearslutz), but none of this has been successful.
Does any one of you have any experience trying to connect these two together ?
Not so long ago, I emailed both Tascam and Joe Meek to ask for some help. If I hear any useful thing from them, I'll post the replies in case it can help others.
In the meantime, I've been trying to read as much as I could of this -huge- topic, but was unable to find a comprehensive list of the preamps which are known to work well with the DR-680.
So far, and still while reading this same topic, I found that the:
- Boss UA-5 (modded)
- M-AUdio Duo
- Sound Devices USBpre 2
- and also the Metric Halo Mobile ULN-2 (if connected to the digital input and output)
seemed to do a good job with the Tascam recorder.
Would there be other preamps you could add to this list ?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give !
Best,
MM